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With the FCC due to vote Tuesday on how to auction off the wildly anticipated 700 MHz band of wireless spectrum, speculation is running rampant about the likely outcome. The stakes are about as high as they come -- an estimated $15 billion, according to reports -- and so is the tension. AT&T and...
Perhaps hoping that lightning can strike the same company twice, Sony announced Friday it has signed an exclusive deal with Rockstar Games, maker of the famous and infamous "Grand Theft Auto" series, to bring a new upcoming franchise exclusively to the PlayStation 3. The deal is a rarity in the indu...
A test of three electronic voting systems certified for use in California has uncovered serious security flaws. Researchers at the University of California conducted the tests at the behest of Secretary of State Debra Bowen under a $1.8 million contract. Their mission was to try to compromise the in...
Summer is typically a quiet time, as the industry takes a breath prior to the back-to-school rush. This year was a bit of an exception, with the launch of the Apple iPhone, which may get credit for revolutionizing much of the tech and consumer electronics industry. While sales are well below expecta...
Thursday was a busy day for French video game maker Ubisoft. The company announced a licensing deal with NBC/Universal to create a game based on the sci-fi hit TV series "Heroes." As a TV show, "Heroes" draws an average of 14 million viewers. It also enjoys a growing list of brand extensions, includ...
The opposing camps in the high-definition DVD wars were in the midst of a fresh round of fire Thursday, when Microsoft announced a $20 price drop and free bundled movies on its Xbox 360 HD DVD Player. Starting Aug. 1, the price of the Xbox 360 add-on will fall from $199 to $179, the company said. In...
If executives at MySpace expected to win praise as good corporate citizens for ridding their Web site of 29,000 registered sexual offenders, those hopes have vanished by now. Since the news came out, criticism of the social networking site only seems to have grown among public officials, parent and ...
In an effort to leverage its growing WiMax mobile Internet initiative, Sprint has called on Google to collaborate on a new mobile portal. The two companies will work together to bring Sprint WiMax mobile Internet customers search, interactive communications and social networking tools that will incl...
A Congressional hearing on Tuesday investigating inadvertent file sharing over peer-to-peer networks unexpectedly put a spotlight on LimeWire Chairman Mark Gorton over the government and personal information that can be acquired over P2P networks without users' knowledge. Gorton's company makes the ...
Colleges and universities narrowly escaped being forced to implement campus antipiracy technologies in exchange for funding Tuesday when a scaled-back version of a proposed piece of legislation, substituted at the 11th hour, won Senate approval. The original amendment to the Higher Education Reautho...
During a congressional hearing Tuesday before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, members of the Federal Communications Commission came out in favor of a plan that would bring open access to one-third of the airwaves set for auction in January. The 700 MHz band spectrum us...
Social networking Web site MySpace has found and purged more than 29,000 sexual predators using the site, a number described by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal as an "exploding epidemic." The figure is more than quadruple the amount MySpace said it found two months ago. In May, MySpa...
The number of consumers downloading music from authorized sites could exceed that of peer-to-peer, or P2P, users this year, according to research conducted by the NPD Group. The growth rate of downloading of copyrighted material via file-sharing services may have slowed down last year to around 8 pe...
Sony Computer Entertainment America executives finally have something to celebrate. Newly released sales data show the company's beleaguered PlayStation 3 gaming platform saw a significant jump in sales for the month of June. Sony was not the only winner last month, according to tracking firm NPD Gr...
You don't need Microsoft's high-powered marketing staff or sophisticated statistics to know where the power currently lies in the portable media player market. Very simply, the score reads something like this: Apple's iPod, 100 million units shipped; Microsoft's Zune, 1 million. Yes, the iPod entere...
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